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Kidwell v. Xerox Corporation

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Mar 6, 2001
281 A.D.2d 188 (N.Y. App. Div. 2001)

Opinion

March 6, 2001.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Edward Lehner, J.), entered February 14, 2000, which denied plaintiff's motion to vacate an order dismissing the action upon the parties' failure to appear at a March 13, 1995 status conference, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Carol R. Finocchio, for plaintiff-appellant.

Laurel A. Wedinger, for defendant/third Party Plaintiff-Respondent.

Elizabeth Anne Bannon, for third Party Defendant-Respondent.

Before: Rosenberger, J.P., Mazzarelli, Ellerin, Wallach, Buckley, JJ.


The primary cause of the delay and inactivity in the case was due to plaintiff's failure to contact her attorney or to make her whereabouts known to her attorney for some four years so that he could contact her. Indeed, the reason counsel did not place the action on the calendar was because he was unable to contact his client and thus feared a dismissal for unreadiness. Plaintiff offers no excuses for not keeping her whereabouts known to her own attorney and this may be deemed an abandonment of the action by plaintiff herself. Accordingly, it would be inappropriate to revive this action commenced in 1990 (see, Martinez v. Belanger, 186 A.D.2d 40, affd 82 N.Y.2d 672; 179 MacDougal Equities v. North Realty Co., 232 A.D.2d 280; compare, Barton v. Executive Health Examiners, 277 A.D.2d 27, 716 N.Y.S.2d 3).

THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.


Summaries of

Kidwell v. Xerox Corporation

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Mar 6, 2001
281 A.D.2d 188 (N.Y. App. Div. 2001)
Case details for

Kidwell v. Xerox Corporation

Case Details

Full title:MARY F. KIDWELL, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, v. XEROX CORPORATION…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: Mar 6, 2001

Citations

281 A.D.2d 188 (N.Y. App. Div. 2001)
721 N.Y.S.2d 234

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